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Data Replication: Change Data Capture

CDC Notification Handler — SMTP Connections Do Not Support SSL/TLS

The built-in IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture notification handler does not currently support SSL/TLS sockets for SMTP connections. Our organization’s SMTP service requires encrypted TLS communication and authenticated SMTP access. As a result, ...
1 day ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Support data replication with Fieldproc attribute from DB2 on z/os

The mirroring always fails when the source table contains columns with Fieldproc attribute, those columns could be part of the pimary key which can not be neglected. When it comes to using Remote source agent, the replication throws the next error...
8 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Expose Source MySQL GTID / GTID UID in IBM CDC Replication Journal or Control Fields

Requirement / Enhancement Request: We would like to request an enhancement in IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (CDC) for MySQL source databases to make the Source MySQL GTID / GTID UID information available at the target side as part of the CDC rep...
9 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Edward J Lynch

Certain target Datastores supported by FlexRep, for example Databricks Delta Lake, do not provide for row-level locking, in particular the ability to have row level locking against the CDC metadata table for the CDC bookmarks. Whenever, a CDC inst...
14 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Support Native MySQL ENUM and other Data Type in IBM CDC for MySQL

Description We request IBM to enhance IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (CDC) for MySQL to support the native MySQL ENUM data type. ENUM is a valid and commonly used native MySQL data type. However, IBM CDC for MySQL currently does not support this ...
20 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

In-Place Version Rollback Support for IBM CDC Replication Engines After Upgrade Enhancement Title

Problem Statement Software upgrades inherently carry risk. Even with thorough pre-production validation, production environments can expose behaviors, performance regressions, or defects that only manifest under specific data volumes, source/targe...
26 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Native Support for Dynamic Credential Retrieval from External Secrets Vaults in IBM CDC Replication Engines

Problem Statement Many enterprises — particularly in regulated industries such as banking, financial services, and healthcare — are required by corporate security governance and compliance frameworks to enforce mandatory, scheduled password rotati...
26 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Provide systemd example in documentation

I had to use Claude to get a correct systemd file to be able to automatically start the CDC Access Server on a new Linux box. I could not find any sample in the documentation, so I used Claude to work out the correct systemd file. You need to work...
27 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Clarification on Future Support for Password-Based Authentication in IBM CDC

Hi IBM Team, We are currently using IBM CDC on z/OS and authenticate to our source systems using credentials specified in CHCCLP scripts. As the passwords are stored in clear text within the scripts, we have raised a Risk Acceptance with our secur...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Performance Improvement for PostgreSQL target Engine to improve performance to Cockroach DB and PostreSQL

We are replicating data to PostgreSQL and CockroachDB in a suboptimal manner. This is blocking deployment of CockroachDB workloads for FSM customers who are accustomed to better performance with CDC. A Fast Apply with a taking into account CTE or ...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted